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CRANBERRIES
THE NATIONAL CRANBERRY MAGAZINE
Volume 45, No. 6 June 1981
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2 growers disagree
The marketing order:
is it good or bad?
By CAROLYN CALDWELL
The CranberryMarketing Orderwas establishedin 1962-following an 85 percent favorable vote in a grower
referendum-to administerdistributionof surplusfruit resultingfrom the "cranberryscare" ofNovember 1959.
A decade later, it was revisedfor the purposeof controllingproduction. The past few years of prosperity in
the industry may lead to other changes to suit the needs of the 1980's, accordingto observers.
A May 1979 referendum on the order showed stronggrower support, with 47 percent in favor of
continuingand 10 percentfor terminating. By volume, this represents 60 percent of the industry for the order
and 9 percent against it.
The CranberryMarketing Committee, consistingof seven members and seven alternatesrepresenting10
states, administers the terms and provisionsof the order. Forthe last 10 years, growers have been assessed
3 cents a barrelfor the service. Copiesof the marketing agreementand orderare availableto growers and can
be obtainedfrom Committee ManagerCharlesHastingsJr., 147 Everett St., MiddleboroMA 02346.
The 1981-82 season marketingpolicy states: "Regulatory authority includes establishmentof an annual
marketablequantity and allotment percentage. Although authorizedbeginningwith the 1974-75 crop year,
marketablequantity has only been establishedin one season but was rescindedprior to the harvest."
As the orderstands now, base quantity is taken from the average best four out of six consecutive years.
If this average is better than the already existing base, a grower can apply for and receive more base quantity.
According to the policy report, harvestedacreage in the past decade increased 4 percent while the number
of growers dropped30 percent-from 1,300 to 915. Increasinglylarger crops have been attributedto "higher
yielding varietiesof cranberriesandimproved culturaland harvesting practices."
The committee's supply and utilization records show 78 to 89 percent of the annualsales over the last
decade have been for processedfruit. Juiceoutlets accountfor a significant percentageof this market,
accordingto managerHastings. Freshfruit sales make up the remainderand have been showing a downward
trendduring the periodfrom 380,000 to 240,000 barrels.
The supply hasfallen short of the demandfor severalyears. Estimatesfor 1981 show that the demand will
be 242,000 barrelsover what can be supplied.
The marketingorder has been both attacked as "an infringement on the marketplace" and praisedas "the
greatesttool of the industry" by two Massachusettscommittee members. The growers, John C. Decasand
DouglasBeaton, presenttheir views below. While they see a common needfor the cranberryindustry to bring
supply into line with demand, their recommended approachesare quite different.
-..PHT Dopposed ............. to the marketing order.
COVER PHOTO Decas: 'lUrts Decas contends the order "hurts
GROWER Earle Hill stands in the little guy" and he advocates
front of two of his flooded little g y the "free market" as the best
Lower Bank, N.J., bogs on a stimulant for initiative.
cold, windy morning earlier this John C. Decas, Marketing "We feel it's an infringement
year. Besides raising berries, Committee representative for on the marketplace," Decas said.
Hill also has been outspoken on independent Massachusetts "The decisions made from the
governmental matters affecting growers, is the only original marketing committee should be
g s peSy 6on member still sitting on the made from the free marketplace.
growers. Story on page 6. committee. The marketplace will tell you
(CRANBERRIES photo by He has gone on record right when there's too much or too
Elizabeth G. Carpenter) from the beginning as being little."
Decas maintains that an open,
unrestricted market would have
controlled excess production
without restricting additional
acreage.
"A lot of sales are now being
lost because acreage that would
have been in is not," Decas said.
He called the inability of supply
to meet the demand in the past
three years "a major scandal in
the history of the industry."
According to Decas, handlers
are now encouraging growers to
put in additional acreage but in
put in additional acreage but in
the meanwhile "the industry has
lost millions of dollars in potential
sales" because the marketing
sste matingbecause
committee failed to anticipate a
boom in demand.
boom b
in demand. i
We should
be making money
where we can," Decas said.
wherue fcanh Decans said.
Because of inherent risks in
agribusiness, he added, no market
should be put "on hold."
"The decisions of the industry
to impose the allotment program
resulted in lost sales because of all
those restrictions," Decas asserted.
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"Competition is the name of the
game. Competition is what we
were discouraging."
As a representative of
independent growers, his policy
is to "try to use our participation
to represent the needs of the
independents." Decas says
independent growers recognize
the order "will exist as long as
Ocean Spray exists."
He maintains the base quantity
as it is set up now is unfair to
good growers and he recommends
good growers and he recommends
a "floating base" instead. Bogs
that exhibit increased production
edi
e base quantity,
but the base does not "roll"
backwards when production slips,
he noted.
"If it is based on the
demonstrated ability of a grower,
it has to be altered both ways,"
Decas said.
"The total base quantity in
relationship to the crop gets
wider and wider each year,"
Decas said. "In a year we have
to impose an allotment, we may
of the crop."
Decas also called for more
cooperation from the federal
justice and agriculture departments
in enforcing the marketing order
by preventing crop record mani
pulations.
"If we can't regulate the order
as it is intended, we can't regulate
the marketing order fairly," Decas
concluded.
Beatonl
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Douglas Beaton, an alternate
member representing Ocean
Spray growers from Massachu
setts, calls the marketing order
"one of the greatest tools the
cranberry industry has."
Beaton belongs to Ocean Spray,
operates a grower's service and
deals in cranberry bog real estate.
He talks in glowing terms of using
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Grower Earle Hill
Critic of state role
in the Pine Barrens
By ELIZABETH G. CARPENTER
"Most of the farms in Sussex
County, in northern New Jersey,
where I grew up, were dairy
farms," says Earle Hill. "When
I graduated, I knew I wanted to be
ber abt I dn't w t to
be a farmer, but I didn't want to
bearat, I
be a dairy farmer."
Well, Hill didn't become a
dairy farmer. He became a cran-
berry grower in the more centrally
located cranberry country of
New Jersey.
On a recent cool, gray morning,
Hill sat in the comfortable living
room of his home in the hamlet
of Lower Ban
in Washitown
of Lower Bank i Washington
Cvarieties
Township, Burlington County,
and discussed events that have
shaped life in New Jersey's Pine
Barrens. His wife, Mae, prepared
for another busy day as the well
respected 2nd grade teacher in
neighboring Woodland Township's
Chatsworth Elementary School.
THE HILL HOME, a former
' st, is
stagecoach stop, is a picturesque,
.three'whie, e
f
three story, white frame house
made of native pine and Atlantic
white cedar. It was built when
lumbering, glassmaking and iron
smelting drew many people to
the Pines. A weathered millstone
flecked with mica supports a
large chunk of glass slag in the
sideyard. Both were taken from
Bulltown, an old glassmaking
Bulltown, an toldglassmakingcommunity in the Pines and the
site of Hill's former lumber mill.
Today Bulltown is one of the
region's forgotten communities.
Hill recalls that he "hand
scooped cranberries in Leektown
cat in Leektown
for 25 cents a 40 pound scooping
box and a person harvesting a
poor crop in the early 1930's
might earn only $1.50 a day."
In 1940 he invested in his first
600 acre parcel of land complete
with cranberry bogs.
His outlook on the cranberry
industry in New Jersey today is
tempered by 41 years as a Pine
Barrens cranberry grower, 35
years as a school board member,
20 years as Washington
Township's mayor and three years
as the mayor's representative to
the often embattled Pinelands
Environmental Council.
Currently, Hill, a member of
the Ocean Spray Cooperative,
owns bogs at Lower Bank, Bull-
and Weekstown. Cranberry
in his bogs include Early
Black, Richards planted in 1890
and Howes planted in 1914. The
Howes have garnered a slightly
higher production record over the
years. Berries from his annual
harvest are trucked to Ocean
Spray in Bordentown, N.J., for
processing.
LACK OF WATER, tipworm and
vandalism are major problems confronting
Hill's bogs. Like most New Jersey
growers, he converted to water
harvesting in the 1960's. However, late
summer and early fall droughts
coupled with frost destroyed his
entire crop three years ago and in
1980 he lost the berries at his Weeks-
town and Lower Bank bogs.
Irrigation would solve this problem.
However, Hill notes that "it's an
expensive undertaking for a small
grower." With irrigation, he estimates,
he could increase production from
150 to 200 barrels per acre.
Tipworm can be controlled by
aerial spraying and Hill, like other
Pine Barrens growers, depends on the
pesticide recommendations of scientists
the Rutgers University Cranberryies
at the Rutgers University Cranberry
and Blueberry Research Center in
Chatsworth. Timing of the flights is
all important if maximum benefit is
to be gotten from the sprays, Hill
notes. Although false blossom disease
used to be a major problem, consistent
spraying and vine pruning have
eradicated it.
"A few years ago, I 'lost' a new
$10,000 tractor," Hill recalls. "Today
it would probably cost $20,000."
His experiences with theft and
vandalism have increased in recent
years and parallel the accounts of
other growers.
An occasional motorcyclist
thinks nothing of careening through
a bog and the motorists in some
four wheel drive vehicles regard
roadblocks on private property as
personal challenges. Much of Hill's
land abuts state-owned forest and
he believes vandalism might decline
if the vehicles were banned on this
public property.
OVER THE YEARS, Hill, in his
capacity as mayor of 107 square mile
Washington Township, has been an
outspoken critic of state land aquisition
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and use. Eighty five percent of the
land is owned or controlled by New
Jersey, leaving the township's 801
citizens to confront a dwindling tax
base while experiencing rising costs.
"The state's decision in 1954 to
acquire the Wharton Tract, 44,000
acres of which are in Washington
Township, motivated me to run for
political office," Hill says.
He explains that the township
realizes only 10 cents per acre on the
arton Tact a annl ta
prperty
When not involved with civic
responsibilities or working on his bogs,
Hill will occasionally discuss possible
equipment designs that would increase
efficiency of cranberry cultivation
with Paul Burk, a neighbor and engineer.
He'd like Burk to develop a hand
operated weed wiper with rapid
rotation of the "roller" which could
possibly reduce herbicide dripping.
Although Hill insists that he is
"not a skilled cabinetmaker," he has
handcrafted book shelves and
paymenTt pfrom xown-cupboards for the family's living
the state toa t
payment from the state to the town-
room and dining room and three granddaughters
thoroughly enjoy the doll-
house he created for them. It's a unique
dollhouse, for inside and out it's a
scale model of their grandparents'
historic home.
Asked about the future of New
Jersey's cranberry industry, Hill
exclaims: "It'll go great guns if the state
doesn't regulate the water."
Then he thoughtfully concludes:
"Water shouldn't be taken from the
Pine Barrens. If it's drawn down 2 feet,
the whole ecology will change in two
years."
ship. After an initial 13 years of
graduated tax payment, the state, with
respect to land administered by the
N.J. Department of Environmental
Protection's Division of Fish, Game
and Shellfisheries, is no longer legally
bound to contribute to the township's
tax base.
New Jersey's Wetlands Act of 1970,
the Coastal Area Facility Review Act
(CAFRA), the Wild and Scenic Rivers
Act, the Green Acres Acquisition
program, and, most recently, the
Pinelands Commission with its
federally approved master plan, have all
had a stifling impact on Washington
Township's economic base.
Like many of his constituents, Hill
has consistently challenged what
appears to be "confiscation by legislation,"
without equitable
reimbursement.
WHEN ASKED about the five
recently proposed state legislative acts
pertaining to water management in New
Jersey-Senate nos. 1610-1614-Hill
responds strongly: "They're no good.
If they're adopted and the (N.J.)
Department of Environmental
Protection really wants to enforce
them, forget cranberries!"
(The acts were discussed in
CRANBERRIES' coverage of the Feb.
12, 1981 American Cranberry Growers'
Assn. meeting that appeared in the
April issue.)
Hill, former president of the
American Cranberry Growers' Assn.,
contends that cranberry growers
manage water wisely. They "pick i
progressively," flooding one bog, then
recycling the water to flood another,
he says.
"Water in reservoirs percolates
down through the soil to help replenish
the underground water supply," he
adds.
He views strict regulation of water
as yet another attempt by the state to
confiscate legislatively.
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Washington yields
Dr. Charles Doughty, who
retired last year, brought about
significant changes in the
cranberry and blueberry produc-
tion of the state of Washington
during his 29 years as a research
horticulturist.
at the Western Washington
Research and Extension Center
in Puyallup and at the Coastal
Washington Research and
Extension Unit near Long Beach.
He began his research career
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according to his colleacygues,.
WoUrth plate mongBea,
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trating on cranberry problems,
tratyernWashington rin lberry
rcan
Dr. Doughty researched and
recommended cultural practices
recommended cultural practices
that changed the industry,
Growers had been getting
heavy production one year and
ight production the next. He
ninnpprprlwnr5wi~hfer~ili~pr
pioneered work wit fertilizer
treatments spaced throughout
the growing season and soon the
bogs were doing well each year.
Per acre yields also jumped and
Washington State moved into
fourth place among cranberry
producing states in the nation.
When New Jersey has a poor
crop year, Washington can claim
third.
Washingtons f
1,20 a
Washingtons acrefrof
1,200pr
cranberries each produce from
lbbaways
150 to 350 of the 100 b. barrels
per year, or twice as much as was
being produced when Dr. Doughty
first went to Long Beach.
Besides the fertilizer
recommendations, Dr. Doughty
tested a new product called
Casoron for its weed control
At the time, Casoron, now one
ba snrote nry
DR. CHARLES DOUGHTY
of the most used agriculutral
herbicides was new from
Europe and generally unknown
in the country.
Doughtys recommenda-
' 'rbutera
tions regarding applcation rtes,
performance levels and chemical
residue of the product in the fruit
became standards of the cranberry
industry and in other fields of
agriculture.
FROST PROTEmTION for
cranberries and blueberries was another
area of concentrated research work
by Dr. Doughty.
Blueberries, like cranberries, take
from five to eight years to come into
production. Dr. Doughty worked on
to increase growth and shorten
this "juvenile" peiod. He also did
research to determine fertilizer needs
and timing when the plants were least
susceptible to frost damage.
Another blueberry growers' nemesis
was the "mummy berry" and Dr.
Doughty was in the thick of the
battle to correct this situation.
Washington State University, Dr.
Doughty's efforts helped bring out
some dramatic improvements for
blueberry growers.
fields were yielding about 3,500 lbs.
per acre. In 1979 the averages had
jumped to 6,000 lbs. Now the 800 to
900 acres of blueberries in Washington
North American Blueberry Council
figures.
DR. DOUGHTY, a native of
Colorado, who grew up on an apple
orchard near Kansas City, didn't begin
college until he was 33. A tendency
toward a career in tree fruits shifted
to a growing interest in research
work and Dr. Doughty completed
Ph.D. at WSU even after some of
his efforts for the cranberry industry
Long Beach.
had begun in ong Beah.
Dr. Doughty and his wife, Reta,
make their home in Sumner. Their
two sons are nearby. Charles Jr. works
as an accountant for a Tacoma
manufacturing company and Galen
s an associate pastor at the Marineview
accoma.edmc
Presbyterian Church in Tacoma.
Dr. Doughty and his wife, who
have been very active in their United
seran C hurch,
hope to do some
isinary work for the church in
Alaska during their retirement years.
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the order to preserve cranberry
growing as a way of life that can
be handed
down from father to
son. .us."
"The cranberry industry is
very rewarding," Beaton said.
"Hard work, sweat and money are
directly related. At times you ha
free time, then you wish you had
a free second. If I can, I will
preserve it for my son and his son
for the next 30 to 40 years ...
I think the order can do that."
He intends to become more
active on the committee.
"It's a grower's order-they
have the most to gain and the most
to lose," Beaton said. He contends
there should be no room for
"handler clashes" on the committee.
Beaton thinks growers should
be planting now for 1985 and
later. He views a lack of foresight
as a historical problem with the
cranberry industry. Sales are
projected four to five years ahead
at the maximum, he said.
"I want to gear the order so
we're looking at least five years
ahead, maybe ten," he said,
explaining that this will bring
supply and demand in line so
growers and handlers can benefit
together.
According to Beaton, the
order should be telling growers
how many new acres are needed
in each area and what varieties to
plant.
"We should be working hand
in hand with the growers to be
the guiding force 10 years hence,"
he said. "I think we've got to
supply that information."
Beaton envisions the marketing
committee as the instrument for
attaining "orderly growth" in the
industry. His goal would be to
elim~indusa~tery.eal
eliminate real estate fluctuations
that make bog values unpredictable.
"We have to grow at an orderly
rate and get rid of this hysteria,"
he said.
He also thinks the marketing
committee can boost the spirit
of cooperation between Ocean
Spray and independent handlers.
"I believe the handlers have
to work closer together," he said.
"Ocean Spray is the industry.
ndependents get fat or lean with
Beaton said he would like to
have the committee reduce the
paperwork it requires from the
growers. The committee has
trimmed its secretarial services
and mailings and is trying to get
down to one form a year.
"The order should not destroy
initiative to produce cranberries,"
Beaton said. "The last thing we
should be doing is putting a
choke on the cranberry
cran
industry."
He supports the established
base quantity transfer as a way
of keeping the order current.
A 2 percent reserve of the total
base quantity is established
annually from the amount that
becomes available through
reduction or invalidation because
of nonuse. The reserve is made
available on a percentage basis
to new producers (25 percent)
and to existing producers (75
percent).
"It is an equitable system,"
Beaton said. "It is fair to
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THE NATIONAL CRANBERRY MAGAZINE
Volume 45, No. 6 June 1981
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2 growers disagree
The marketing order:
is it good or bad?
By CAROLYN CALDWELL
The CranberryMarketing Orderwas establishedin 1962-following an 85 percent favorable vote in a grower
referendum-to administerdistributionof surplusfruit resultingfrom the "cranberryscare" ofNovember 1959.
A decade later, it was revisedfor the purposeof controllingproduction. The past few years of prosperity in
the industry may lead to other changes to suit the needs of the 1980's, accordingto observers.
A May 1979 referendum on the order showed stronggrower support, with 47 percent in favor of
continuingand 10 percentfor terminating. By volume, this represents 60 percent of the industry for the order
and 9 percent against it.
The CranberryMarketing Committee, consistingof seven members and seven alternatesrepresenting10
states, administers the terms and provisionsof the order. Forthe last 10 years, growers have been assessed
3 cents a barrelfor the service. Copiesof the marketing agreementand orderare availableto growers and can
be obtainedfrom Committee ManagerCharlesHastingsJr., 147 Everett St., MiddleboroMA 02346.
The 1981-82 season marketingpolicy states: "Regulatory authority includes establishmentof an annual
marketablequantity and allotment percentage. Although authorizedbeginningwith the 1974-75 crop year,
marketablequantity has only been establishedin one season but was rescindedprior to the harvest."
As the orderstands now, base quantity is taken from the average best four out of six consecutive years.
If this average is better than the already existing base, a grower can apply for and receive more base quantity.
According to the policy report, harvestedacreage in the past decade increased 4 percent while the number
of growers dropped30 percent-from 1,300 to 915. Increasinglylarger crops have been attributedto "higher
yielding varietiesof cranberriesandimproved culturaland harvesting practices."
The committee's supply and utilization records show 78 to 89 percent of the annualsales over the last
decade have been for processedfruit. Juiceoutlets accountfor a significant percentageof this market,
accordingto managerHastings. Freshfruit sales make up the remainderand have been showing a downward
trendduring the periodfrom 380,000 to 240,000 barrels.
The supply hasfallen short of the demandfor severalyears. Estimatesfor 1981 show that the demand will
be 242,000 barrelsover what can be supplied.
The marketingorder has been both attacked as "an infringement on the marketplace" and praisedas "the
greatesttool of the industry" by two Massachusettscommittee members. The growers, John C. Decasand
DouglasBeaton, presenttheir views below. While they see a common needfor the cranberryindustry to bring
supply into line with demand, their recommended approachesare quite different.
-..PHT Dopposed ............. to the marketing order.
COVER PHOTO Decas: 'lUrts Decas contends the order "hurts
GROWER Earle Hill stands in the little guy" and he advocates
front of two of his flooded little g y the "free market" as the best
Lower Bank, N.J., bogs on a stimulant for initiative.
cold, windy morning earlier this John C. Decas, Marketing "We feel it's an infringement
year. Besides raising berries, Committee representative for on the marketplace" Decas said.
Hill also has been outspoken on independent Massachusetts "The decisions made from the
governmental matters affecting growers, is the only original marketing committee should be
g s peSy 6on member still sitting on the made from the free marketplace.
growers. Story on page 6. committee. The marketplace will tell you
(CRANBERRIES photo by He has gone on record right when there's too much or too
Elizabeth G. Carpenter) from the beginning as being little."
Decas maintains that an open,
unrestricted market would have
controlled excess production
without restricting additional
acreage.
"A lot of sales are now being
lost because acreage that would
have been in is not" Decas said.
He called the inability of supply
to meet the demand in the past
three years "a major scandal in
the history of the industry."
According to Decas, handlers
are now encouraging growers to
put in additional acreage but in
put in additional acreage but in
the meanwhile "the industry has
lost millions of dollars in potential
sales" because the marketing
sste matingbecause
committee failed to anticipate a
boom in demand.
boom b
in demand. i
We should
be making money
where we can" Decas said.
wherue fcanh Decans said.
Because of inherent risks in
agribusiness, he added, no market
should be put "on hold."
"The decisions of the industry
to impose the allotment program
resulted in lost sales because of all
those restrictions" Decas asserted.
i
"Competition is the name of the
game. Competition is what we
were discouraging."
As a representative of
independent growers, his policy
is to "try to use our participation
to represent the needs of the
independents." Decas says
independent growers recognize
the order "will exist as long as
Ocean Spray exists."
He maintains the base quantity
as it is set up now is unfair to
good growers and he recommends
good growers and he recommends
a "floating base" instead. Bogs
that exhibit increased production
edi
e base quantity,
but the base does not "roll"
backwards when production slips,
he noted.
"If it is based on the
demonstrated ability of a grower,
it has to be altered both ways"
Decas said.
"The total base quantity in
relationship to the crop gets
wider and wider each year"
Decas said. "In a year we have
to impose an allotment, we may
of the crop."
Decas also called for more
cooperation from the federal
justice and agriculture departments
in enforcing the marketing order
by preventing crop record mani
pulations.
"If we can't regulate the order
as it is intended, we can't regulate
the marketing order fairly" Decas
concluded.
Beatonl
tpreserves
i U tru
i Sree y
Douglas Beaton, an alternate
member representing Ocean
Spray growers from Massachu
setts, calls the marketing order
"one of the greatest tools the
cranberry industry has."
Beaton belongs to Ocean Spray,
operates a grower's service and
deals in cranberry bog real estate.
He talks in glowing terms of using
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Grower Earle Hill
Critic of state role
in the Pine Barrens
By ELIZABETH G. CARPENTER
"Most of the farms in Sussex
County, in northern New Jersey,
where I grew up, were dairy
farms" says Earle Hill. "When
I graduated, I knew I wanted to be
ber abt I dn't w t to
be a farmer, but I didn't want to
bearat, I
be a dairy farmer."
Well, Hill didn't become a
dairy farmer. He became a cran-
berry grower in the more centrally
located cranberry country of
New Jersey.
On a recent cool, gray morning,
Hill sat in the comfortable living
room of his home in the hamlet
of Lower Ban
in Washitown
of Lower Bank i Washington
Cvarieties
Township, Burlington County,
and discussed events that have
shaped life in New Jersey's Pine
Barrens. His wife, Mae, prepared
for another busy day as the well
respected 2nd grade teacher in
neighboring Woodland Township's
Chatsworth Elementary School.
THE HILL HOME, a former
' st, is
stagecoach stop, is a picturesque,
.three'whie, e
f
three story, white frame house
made of native pine and Atlantic
white cedar. It was built when
lumbering, glassmaking and iron
smelting drew many people to
the Pines. A weathered millstone
flecked with mica supports a
large chunk of glass slag in the
sideyard. Both were taken from
Bulltown, an old glassmaking
Bulltown, an toldglassmakingcommunity in the Pines and the
site of Hill's former lumber mill.
Today Bulltown is one of the
region's forgotten communities.
Hill recalls that he "hand
scooped cranberries in Leektown
cat in Leektown
for 25 cents a 40 pound scooping
box and a person harvesting a
poor crop in the early 1930's
might earn only $1.50 a day."
In 1940 he invested in his first
600 acre parcel of land complete
with cranberry bogs.
His outlook on the cranberry
industry in New Jersey today is
tempered by 41 years as a Pine
Barrens cranberry grower, 35
years as a school board member,
20 years as Washington
Township's mayor and three years
as the mayor's representative to
the often embattled Pinelands
Environmental Council.
Currently, Hill, a member of
the Ocean Spray Cooperative,
owns bogs at Lower Bank, Bull-
and Weekstown. Cranberry
in his bogs include Early
Black, Richards planted in 1890
and Howes planted in 1914. The
Howes have garnered a slightly
higher production record over the
years. Berries from his annual
harvest are trucked to Ocean
Spray in Bordentown, N.J., for
processing.
LACK OF WATER, tipworm and
vandalism are major problems confronting
Hill's bogs. Like most New Jersey
growers, he converted to water
harvesting in the 1960's. However, late
summer and early fall droughts
coupled with frost destroyed his
entire crop three years ago and in
1980 he lost the berries at his Weeks-
town and Lower Bank bogs.
Irrigation would solve this problem.
However, Hill notes that "it's an
expensive undertaking for a small
grower." With irrigation, he estimates,
he could increase production from
150 to 200 barrels per acre.
Tipworm can be controlled by
aerial spraying and Hill, like other
Pine Barrens growers, depends on the
pesticide recommendations of scientists
the Rutgers University Cranberryies
at the Rutgers University Cranberry
and Blueberry Research Center in
Chatsworth. Timing of the flights is
all important if maximum benefit is
to be gotten from the sprays, Hill
notes. Although false blossom disease
used to be a major problem, consistent
spraying and vine pruning have
eradicated it.
"A few years ago, I 'lost' a new
$10,000 tractor" Hill recalls. "Today
it would probably cost $20,000."
His experiences with theft and
vandalism have increased in recent
years and parallel the accounts of
other growers.
An occasional motorcyclist
thinks nothing of careening through
a bog and the motorists in some
four wheel drive vehicles regard
roadblocks on private property as
personal challenges. Much of Hill's
land abuts state-owned forest and
he believes vandalism might decline
if the vehicles were banned on this
public property.
OVER THE YEARS, Hill, in his
capacity as mayor of 107 square mile
Washington Township, has been an
outspoken critic of state land aquisition
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and use. Eighty five percent of the
land is owned or controlled by New
Jersey, leaving the township's 801
citizens to confront a dwindling tax
base while experiencing rising costs.
"The state's decision in 1954 to
acquire the Wharton Tract, 44,000
acres of which are in Washington
Township, motivated me to run for
political office" Hill says.
He explains that the township
realizes only 10 cents per acre on the
arton Tact a annl ta
prperty
When not involved with civic
responsibilities or working on his bogs,
Hill will occasionally discuss possible
equipment designs that would increase
efficiency of cranberry cultivation
with Paul Burk, a neighbor and engineer.
He'd like Burk to develop a hand
operated weed wiper with rapid
rotation of the "roller" which could
possibly reduce herbicide dripping.
Although Hill insists that he is
"not a skilled cabinetmaker" he has
handcrafted book shelves and
paymenTt pfrom xown-cupboards for the family's living
the state toa t
payment from the state to the town-
room and dining room and three granddaughters
thoroughly enjoy the doll-
house he created for them. It's a unique
dollhouse, for inside and out it's a
scale model of their grandparents'
historic home.
Asked about the future of New
Jersey's cranberry industry, Hill
exclaims: "It'll go great guns if the state
doesn't regulate the water."
Then he thoughtfully concludes:
"Water shouldn't be taken from the
Pine Barrens. If it's drawn down 2 feet,
the whole ecology will change in two
years."
ship. After an initial 13 years of
graduated tax payment, the state, with
respect to land administered by the
N.J. Department of Environmental
Protection's Division of Fish, Game
and Shellfisheries, is no longer legally
bound to contribute to the township's
tax base.
New Jersey's Wetlands Act of 1970,
the Coastal Area Facility Review Act
(CAFRA), the Wild and Scenic Rivers
Act, the Green Acres Acquisition
program, and, most recently, the
Pinelands Commission with its
federally approved master plan, have all
had a stifling impact on Washington
Township's economic base.
Like many of his constituents, Hill
has consistently challenged what
appears to be "confiscation by legislation"
without equitable
reimbursement.
WHEN ASKED about the five
recently proposed state legislative acts
pertaining to water management in New
Jersey-Senate nos. 1610-1614-Hill
responds strongly: "They're no good.
If they're adopted and the (N.J.)
Department of Environmental
Protection really wants to enforce
them, forget cranberries!"
(The acts were discussed in
CRANBERRIES' coverage of the Feb.
12, 1981 American Cranberry Growers'
Assn. meeting that appeared in the
April issue.)
Hill, former president of the
American Cranberry Growers' Assn.,
contends that cranberry growers
manage water wisely. They "pick i
progressively" flooding one bog, then
recycling the water to flood another,
he says.
"Water in reservoirs percolates
down through the soil to help replenish
the underground water supply" he
adds.
He views strict regulation of water
as yet another attempt by the state to
confiscate legislatively.
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Flumes and flume work
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Scientist boosted
Washington yields
Dr. Charles Doughty, who
retired last year, brought about
significant changes in the
cranberry and blueberry produc-
tion of the state of Washington
during his 29 years as a research
horticulturist.
at the Western Washington
Research and Extension Center
in Puyallup and at the Coastal
Washington Research and
Extension Unit near Long Beach.
He began his research career
at a relatively late stage in his
life but accomplished much,
according to his colleacygues,.
WoUrth plate mongBea,
L coancehis
trating on cranberry problems,
tratyernWashington rin lberry
rcan
Dr. Doughty researched and
recommended cultural practices
recommended cultural practices
that changed the industry,
Growers had been getting
heavy production one year and
ight production the next. He
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pioneered work wit fertilizer
treatments spaced throughout
the growing season and soon the
bogs were doing well each year.
Per acre yields also jumped and
Washington State moved into
fourth place among cranberry
producing states in the nation.
When New Jersey has a poor
crop year, Washington can claim
third.
Washingtons f
1,20 a
Washingtons acrefrof
1,200pr
cranberries each produce from
lbbaways
150 to 350 of the 100 b. barrels
per year, or twice as much as was
being produced when Dr. Doughty
first went to Long Beach.
Besides the fertilizer
recommendations, Dr. Doughty
tested a new product called
Casoron for its weed control
At the time, Casoron, now one
ba snrote nry
DR. CHARLES DOUGHTY
of the most used agriculutral
herbicides was new from
Europe and generally unknown
in the country.
Doughtys recommenda-
' 'rbutera
tions regarding applcation rtes,
performance levels and chemical
residue of the product in the fruit
became standards of the cranberry
industry and in other fields of
agriculture.
FROST PROTEmTION for
cranberries and blueberries was another
area of concentrated research work
by Dr. Doughty.
Blueberries, like cranberries, take
from five to eight years to come into
production. Dr. Doughty worked on
to increase growth and shorten
this "juvenile" peiod. He also did
research to determine fertilizer needs
and timing when the plants were least
susceptible to frost damage.
Another blueberry growers' nemesis
was the "mummy berry" and Dr.
Doughty was in the thick of the
battle to correct this situation.
Washington State University, Dr.
Doughty's efforts helped bring out
some dramatic improvements for
blueberry growers.
fields were yielding about 3,500 lbs.
per acre. In 1979 the averages had
jumped to 6,000 lbs. Now the 800 to
900 acres of blueberries in Washington
North American Blueberry Council
figures.
DR. DOUGHTY, a native of
Colorado, who grew up on an apple
orchard near Kansas City, didn't begin
college until he was 33. A tendency
toward a career in tree fruits shifted
to a growing interest in research
work and Dr. Doughty completed
Ph.D. at WSU even after some of
his efforts for the cranberry industry
Long Beach.
had begun in ong Beah.
Dr. Doughty and his wife, Reta,
make their home in Sumner. Their
two sons are nearby. Charles Jr. works
as an accountant for a Tacoma
manufacturing company and Galen
s an associate pastor at the Marineview
accoma.edmc
Presbyterian Church in Tacoma.
Dr. Doughty and his wife, who
have been very active in their United
seran C hurch,
hope to do some
isinary work for the church in
Alaska during their retirement years.
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April was slightly on the warm
side at 0.8 of a degree a day above
normal. About 50 miles miles inland
from the station the weather was
considerably warmer. The maximum
temperature was 76 degrees on the
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MARKET ORDER...
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the order to preserve cranberry
growing as a way of life that can
be handed
down from father to
son. .us."
"The cranberry industry is
very rewarding" Beaton said.
"Hard work, sweat and money are
directly related. At times you ha
free time, then you wish you had
a free second. If I can, I will
preserve it for my son and his son
for the next 30 to 40 years ...
I think the order can do that."
He intends to become more
active on the committee.
"It's a grower's order-they
have the most to gain and the most
to lose" Beaton said. He contends
there should be no room for
"handler clashes" on the committee.
Beaton thinks growers should
be planting now for 1985 and
later. He views a lack of foresight
as a historical problem with the
cranberry industry. Sales are
projected four to five years ahead
at the maximum, he said.
"I want to gear the order so
we're looking at least five years
ahead, maybe ten" he said,
explaining that this will bring
supply and demand in line so
growers and handlers can benefit
together.
According to Beaton, the
order should be telling growers
how many new acres are needed
in each area and what varieties to
plant.
"We should be working hand
in hand with the growers to be
the guiding force 10 years hence"
he said. "I think we've got to
supply that information."
Beaton envisions the marketing
committee as the instrument for
attaining "orderly growth" in the
industry. His goal would be to
elim~indusa~tery.eal
eliminate real estate fluctuations
that make bog values unpredictable.
"We have to grow at an orderly
rate and get rid of this hysteria"
he said.
He also thinks the marketing
committee can boost the spirit
of cooperation between Ocean
Spray and independent handlers.
"I believe the handlers have
to work closer together" he said.
"Ocean Spray is the industry.
ndependents get fat or lean with
Beaton said he would like to
have the committee reduce the
paperwork it requires from the
growers. The committee has
trimmed its secretarial services
and mailings and is trying to get
down to one form a year.
"The order should not destroy
initiative to produce cranberries"
Beaton said. "The last thing we
should be doing is putting a
choke on the cranberry
cran
industry."
He supports the established
base quantity transfer as a way
of keeping the order current.
A 2 percent reserve of the total
base quantity is established
annually from the amount that
becomes available through
reduction or invalidation because
of nonuse. The reserve is made
available on a percentage basis
to new producers (25 percent)
and to existing producers (75
percent).
"It is an equitable system"
Beaton said. "It is fair to
everyone-old grower, new
grower."
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Look for equipment financing where you pay
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WEATHER WATCH...
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WISCONSIN CRANBERRY / S\ |the 22nd. The night of the 21-22nd
provided the first frost warning and
PODe~ were several bogs reportingHEADQMUVi \FOR DEl temperatures of 8 degrees. Warmer
EupT A ~DOl~IF R~ADr ^ there
UAR*lTERSv
HED UA Othan average days were the 10th,
T R FOR
^^^•fwNat«~ A dX~ ^~ v^~ ~18th, 26-28th and 30th. Cooler thanSD rEVIN ^XLJR Aaverage days were the 13th, 15th,
16th, 21st, 24th and 25th.
DEVRINOL 10G * EVITAL * GUTHION Precipitation totalled 4.06 inches
about 1/4 inch below normal for
ON* ETHor
DIAZINON 14G * PARATHION* ETHREL
the month. There were 11 days with
.^^}~~~~~ ^ ^-^., • ^precipitation, with .98 on the 5-6th Co le C h e Inic atl S up ply as the greatest storm. We are 3inches
DIVISION OF RLC -5.M ARULObelow normal for the four months
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